Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756199Ab1CLXmi (ORCPT ); Sat, 12 Mar 2011 18:42:38 -0500 Received: from mail-bw0-f46.google.com ([209.85.214.46]:56872 "EHLO mail-bw0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752584Ab1CLXmh (ORCPT ); Sat, 12 Mar 2011 18:42:37 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=qczif03iFLI9Y7NcI+G0S9PS1gD0WsE0v0TW0zVPrFXcyJXK/fGJhZVrpOw13D9B2k U1WxVnojg0ZmMpP8deyDmYgXZ9TJCngcUTE8aWLcSX55odSXF2/9B//vSBfyGlt3+J3x TOlGFx5k68/oUg+TtLqohOc+ui6HONiR1CpQo= MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20110312173626.GC24981@kroah.com> References: <1299889746-16502-1-git-send-email-omar.ramirez@ti.com> <20110312173626.GC24981@kroah.com> Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2011 01:42:35 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: tidspbridge: protect dmm_map properly From: Felipe Contreras To: Greg KH Cc: Omar Ramirez Luna , l-m , Felipe Contreras , l-o , Ohad Ben-Cohen , Fernando Guzman Lugo , Tuomas Kulve Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1181 Lines: 34 On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 7:36 PM, Greg KH wrote: > On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 06:29:06PM -0600, Omar Ramirez Luna wrote: >> Please consider to apply this patch in the staging tree, as the >> description says it fixes a crash in tidspbridge driver, this bug >> was already present but it seems to have surfaced by recent tests >> made by Felipe and Tuomas. >> >> It is an urgent fix for 2.6.38. > > Heh, it's funny to see such a "urgent" fix take so long to get to me :) Well, depending on your hardware and use-case this might or might not be urgent. At least for some people the driver is unusable without this. > Is it also applicable for .37? Yes. > How about I send it to Linus for .39 and then add it to the .38-stable > tree when it comes out? That was the plan for .38/.37-stable. I'd say that's fine, but it would be even better to avoid people getting bit by this on plain .38. Cheers. -- Felipe Contreras -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/